This paper describes ICON, a novel editor designed to configure a set of input devices and connect them to actions into a graphical interactive application. ICON allows physically challenged users to connect alternative input devices and/or configure their interaction techniques according to their needs. It allows skilled users – graphic designers or musicians for example – to configure any ICO...

Many animals, including humans, acquire information through social learning. Although such information can be acquired easily, its potential unreliability means it should not be used indiscriminately. Cultural ‘transmission biases’ may allow individuals to weigh their reliance on social information according to a model's characteristics. In one of the first studies to juxtapose two model-based ...

divine names and attributes have a great bearing on the relationship between man and god in respects such as belief in and supplication to him. the semantic dimension of this issue has been the focus of attention in the philosophy of religion. this aspect of divine names and attributes is concerned with questions as to how to discuss god’s names and how these names relate to man’s attributes. i...

We often form intentions to resist anticipated future temptations. But when confronted with the temptations our resolutions were designed withstand, we tend revise previous evaluative judgments and conclude that should now succumb—only then revert initial evaluations, once temptation has subsided. Some made under sway of are mistaken. not all them are. When belief one succumb is a proper respon...

The proliferations of Internet technologies, services and devices have made the current network system designs and management tools incapable of designing reliable, secure networked systems and services. The complexity of current systems had led researchers to consider alternative designs and management techniques that are based on strategies used by biological systems to deal with complexity, ...

unreliability of financial statements in iran has urged this country’s financial services industry management to manipulate practices by which they could gain reliable risk scores for borrowers. this research extracts the most influential qualitative factors that would impact the default of a business relationship borrower. solicitation of the factors is done through delphi methodology. the mea...